New paper may explain the widespread belief in the value of Michael Mann’s methods and the ‘bet’ on the Hockey Stick
'A new paper which may explain why so many scientists, the IPCC, NGO's, and governments bet of the hockey stick as the 'hot hand' in the climate science card game. The paper has a prescient title: Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting by Nattavudh Powdthavee...the hockey stick was in fact a huge gamble on the part of “The Team'
